A password for MDRS?

Question

Hi Dears.

 

Whenever I try to open:  http://localhost:50000. In Step1 one of Lab Tutorial 4 Part 2 (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727247.aspx). There is a message Windows it asked my password for MDRS:

 

“Enter username and password for”” at http://localhost:50000”

   Username:

   Password:

                              Ok                                  Cancel

 

 

What I can do?

Answer 1

Just enter the same windows username and password as for the machine. Try [machinename]\[username] if that doesn't work.

 

Also, in the Robotics studio 1.5 help file, search for security settings[1] or have a look at this article[2] to disable the setting.

 

[1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb870540.aspx

[2] http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.SecurityFAQ

 

Erik

Answer 2

I ran into this same problem using Firefox 3. Problem is that there is no password and it subsequently fails authentication.  This occurs only in the firefox browser and NOT in IE as IE handles it within their internet zone options. MSRS calls your default webbrowser, which in my case was Firefox and this just doesn't work in Firefox. In fact, the web interface used with MSRS ionly seems to work with IE anyway so if you want to use it, you must relent to having IE as your windows default browser.

You can set IE as your default browser by going into control panel/add programs and set program access to default to IE. (Why MSRS couldn't call IE directly instead of forcing you to accept IE as your default browser is beyond me, no wait, it's the world domination thing again. subtle huh?) (The problem with conspiracies are that they explain everything, whether they are true or not)

Don't know about other browsers but thats how I got it to work with Firefox 3, by using IE.

Answer 3

By disabling the security setting, Firefox is able to connect. I will check with Firefox 3.0 next week.

 

It could work with security enabled, if your computer/system has a username AND password, type in both in the logon box and try that.

 

Erik